Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1916 — Knox Couple Killed One Hour After Their Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Knox Couple Killed One Hour After Their Marriage.

Only one hour after they were married in Knox Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Castleman were killed on a Nickel Plate crossing there by a locomotive. Mrs. Castleman’s 12-year-okl son, Russell Stephenson, by her first husband, lost his life also. The party was driving southward toward the Nickel Plate for the return to the Castleman farm, four freight drawn by two engines had taken the siding. One engine passed the water tank and this ene Was observed by the people in the buggy. They must have Tailed to observe the other which followed closely. It struck them with awful force and death was instantaneous,